MOSCOW, March 12 (AVN) - The Bazalt state-owned research and production enterprise exhibited a large spectrum of military and dual-purpose products, including equipment for operations on the sunken Kursk submarine, at the High Technologies of the Defence Industry forum that opened in Moscow on Monday.
Among the military products featured on the enterprise's racks are rounds for the RPG-7 grenade launcher, 120mm shells for 1938-made mortars, 45mm grenades for the DP-64 grenade launcher, a RShG-1 jet attack grenade with a thermobaric warhead for a disposable grenade launcher, a round with the trans-obstacle grenade for the RPG-7 grenade launcher and an OGV-7V round with the 7B-50 fragmentation grenade for the RPG-7V1 grenade launcher.
Participants of the forum paid special attention to the enterprise's dual purpose products, Bazalt chief engineer-constructor Nikolai Sereda told the Military News Agency. For instance, the AL-1E emergency line thrower that is intended for throwing line between vessels or from a vessel to the shore and back in order to provide a towing or a mooring rope, was a huge success. The line thrower can be used as an auxiliary in fire fighting and mine rescue works too. Its range is up to 390m and the weight of the projectile that is used to fire line is 1.9kg.
Besides, Balzak exhibits a unique underwater cutter that was designed for cutting holes in the sunken Komsomolets submarine, Sereda said. The enterprise now proposes to use the cutter in the forthcoming Kursk submarine recovery operation, he stressed.
The device is intended for cutting various metal and concrete structures in the course of rescue works, including on sunken submarines, surface ships and sea platforms, as well as on undersea pipelines. It can be used at the depths of up to 500m. The cutter can have a linear or a curved shape depending on what object it is applied to. Besides, underwater cutters can be linked together by fixing elements if a large hole is required or if it is necessary to cut a tube of large diameter. In this case, they can make holes big enough for people and equipment to go through.
Another Bazalt's latest, the system of aircraft bombs used for fighting and localisation of forest fires and suppressing firestorms produced by man-made disasters and catastrophes, also attracted interest of the forum's participants.